shutdown and log out not working Ubuntu 11.10

[Colin Law]

On 31 October 2011 13:40, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 31 October 2011 13:07, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I upgraded to 11.10 from 11.04.  Now when you try to log out or
>>> shutdown, I get nowhere.  If I hit the off switch on the laptop Ubuntu
>>> shuts down, however.
>>
>> Do you mean it just powers off, or does it do a normal shutdown?

You did not answer this question

>>
>> Check in gconf-editor that you have *not* got
>> Apps/indicator-session/enable_suppress_logout_restart_shutdown
>> selected.  If you *have* got it selected then this suppresses the
>> dialog that allows restart and so on, which may be confusing the
>> situation, though clearing it it will probably not fix the problem.
>>
>> Colin
>
> Not checked. Must be another cause.
>
> thanks
>
> garyk
>
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